PHOTO GALLERY: Family Day Big Bloom at SAMFA, March 8, 2014

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Ashton Droll, 8, seeks artistic advice from volunteer and airman 2nd Lt. Yoshiki Revell. Droll participated in some of the arts activities, such as wildflower painting, at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts’ Big Bloom family day event Saturday.

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Siblings Makayla, 10, and Elijah Jackson, 9, made blooms for a large wildflower display, using construction paper, foam, tissue paper and other materials.

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Xeriscape simulation was one of the many displays at Saturday’s Big Bloom Family Day event at SAMFA. The display illustrates a guide to xeriscaping, which is most effective when a landscape is one-third rock, one-third native turf and one-third drought-tolerant plants. Students in the Aqua Squad worked at the booth to educate families.

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Families enjoyed various arts and crafts related to Texas art and wildflowers at Family Day, with the theme Big Bloom. Children could also participate in a seed swap and learn about xeriscaping.

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Volunteer and airman Tech Sgt. Derrik Morris helps Makayla Jackson, 10, as she makes a large wildflower for a wall display Saturday during the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts’ Big Bloom Family Day event.

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Egg carton flowers, modeled after “pop-up” sculptures by the late Abilene artist Lee Littlefield, were among the many art activities at Saturday’s Big Bloom Family Day event at SAMFA. Children could make flowers from egg crates, wire, toothpicks and sculpting foam.

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Aqua Squad students and museum staff educated families about household water use at the Big Bloom Family Day event at SAMFA. Participants were asked to guess how much water is used in a daily activity, such as one flush of the toilet.

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Raven Sanchez, 3, concentrates hard as she paints her wildflower drawing using watercolors. It was her first time at a San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts Family Day.

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A brightly painted wildflower hangs to dry as one of many works created at the Big Bloom Family Day event Saturday.

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Ashton Droll, 8, scratches her nose as she looks at drying wildflower paintings at the Big Bloom Family Day event.

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AJ Sanchez, 5, draws flowers as part of a wildflower art activity at Saturday’s Big Bloom Family Day event at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts.

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Volunteer and airman 2nd Lt. Yoshiki Revell shows Ashton Droll, 8, his way of drawing a Texas wildflower. Revell has volunteered for a couple of months at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts’ family day events. The Florida native wanted to give back to the community in his spare time.

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Wendy Faught helps her daughter Emily, 6, construct an egg crate flower sculpture. Faught said she brings her daughter to the museum’s monthly Family Day events fairly regularly, at least once every two months.

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Wildflower drawings and paintings hang to dry as families busy themselves with various arts and crafts at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday.